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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Updated patch.

FWIW, I concur with the idea of just dropping that sentence altogether.
It's not likely that getting rid of that field is a line of development
that will ever be pursued; if anyone does get concerned about cutting
WAL size, there's a lot of more-valuable directions to go in.

			regards, tom lane